With Donald Trump the definitive winner of the 2024 electionsAI experts seem equal parts excited and terrified that the technology will catch up to human intelligence (or beyond) during his second presidency.

Despite the president-elect’s confusing statement that “Super Dumb AI” is “alarming and terrifying” during a podcast appearance over the summer, many believe that with his running mate J.D. Vance and money man Elon Musk At the forefront of AI policy, loosening regulations could lead to the introduction of artificial general intelligence (AGI) during Trump’s second term.

Whether that is good, bad or neutral depends on the commentator’s perspective.

“By many estimates,” OpenAI staffer Steven Heidel cryptically tweeted“Trump will be president of AGI.”

On Reddit, things seemed much more black and white, as the AI ​​brothers lamented the idea of ​​world-changing technology emerging under the rule of a motivated politician with little understanding of technical issues and who is motivated largely out of grievances, power and reckoning.

“There is a non-zero probability that AGI will occur during what increasingly looks like Trump’s second term as president,” he said. user posted on r/Singularityapparently before Kamala Harris conceded. “If ever there was a combination of circumstances that screamed Apocalypse in giant neon letters, this is it.”

“Guys like Elon and (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) will have a say in AGI if it gets done under Trump,” another responded. “There’s no really good way to turn this around. I’d rather have runaway AGI.”

As Another user pointed outthat Vance is one step away from the presidency is even more worrying given that he is driven by the famous ideologist Peter ThielWHO he recently told a crowd at the University of Cambridge who is more concerned about government regulation of any impending AGI than the technology itself.

Notably, Trump has already declared that is planning to repeal outgoing President Joe Biden’s restrictions on AI, making the prospect of the technology going haywire during his term even more real.

This entire outlook depends, of course, on AGI actually being produced over the next four years, a timeline that even Thiel would likely reject based on his own predictions that the technology will become “super dominant“in a few decades.

But if so, as another user pointed out in a post since deleted on r/SingularityTrump’s second term could well “turn the future (of artificial superintelligence) into (a) dystopia, not a utopia.”

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